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Quotes from Sphynxes Wild — Esther Friesner

born 1951 United States

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16 quotes

Like all grandmothers, she wouldn’t mind if the world ended so long as everyone cleaned his plate first.

Sphynxes Wild (1989)

Gratitude and love. He wasn’t the only one who lived with the pretty lie that one must necessarily lead to the other.

Sphynxes Wild (1989)

Money is easier to manipulate than men, but then it manipulates them for you.

Sphynxes Wild (1989)

At least when you’re dead, you can stop worrying about your health.

Sphynxes Wild (1989)

Who obeyed the commands of ghosts except madmen?

Sphynxes Wild (1989)

Should be is not is. Ignorance sees to that.

Sphynxes Wild (1989)

Bravery cannot be taught, but duty can.

Sphynxes Wild (1989)

My lady, I shudder to meet so much blind enthusiasm in one soul. It is dangerous when bravado envelops bravery.

Sphynxes Wild (1989)

She knew the odor of ruthlessness, though she was sure he would call it political practicality.

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Elena had never managed to develop any patience for smartasses. Her first impulse was still to kick them right where they were smartest.

Sphynxes Wild (1989)

Gods do not explain their cruelties.

Sphynxes Wild (1989)

The women treated you like a kid until you showed them you could put down a man’s stack of cash. Enough bills on the table and you could wear a Sesame Street bib and they wouldn’t care.

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Three there are and three there be,
Each will gain the rest for thee:
Flesh to flesh in burning hold;
Song of silver, chink of gold;
Power to make others bend.
None the Answer in the end.

Sphynxes Wild (1989)

It is more comfortable for us to pretend that we are a kindly race, to let bygones be bygone, to let the dust of history mingle with the ashes of the dead and to sweep both under the same rug.

Sphynxes Wild (1989)

There went a young lady with what most people would call a healthy attitude toward self-advancement. Anything for money, short of her body. The trouble with plunging into indefinite pronouns—anything, anywhere, anytime, anyone—is that no one knows how deep the water is until it closes over your head.

Sphynxes Wild (1989)

Beautiful. She had been born with an appreciation for beauty. Mortals who imagined that they shared that same appreciation knew nothing. In them, the taste had to be learned, cultivated, forced into being. If it had been a natural part of their souls, they never would have destroyed so much loveliness with their repetitive stupidities.

Sphynxes Wild (1989)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Esther Friesner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.